In 'Babel's Tower Translated', Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g. Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambig…
"In 'Babel's Tower translated', Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah)"--Back cover.
In Babel's Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambigu…
In 'Babel's Tower Translated', Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g. Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambig…
Ancient Jewish Interpreters read and rewrote the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel to address various challenges to the identity of 'Israel' in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods.